Serendipity | Winterthur | Day 7

Serendipity
(n.) Finding something beautiful without looking for it.

This had to be one of the greatest days I've had in a very long long time.
I can't ever recall being in so much bliss and just being purely happy and amazed by what God could create and how it could be so stunningly beautiful.
These past couple years have been so hard to get through and the fact that I got to experience something like this the way I did, I wouldn't change a single thing that's happened.

Today we headed off to Winterthur (pronounced winter-thor) Museum, Garden and Library. This is Henry Francis du Pont's 1,000 acres of meadows and woodlands home that he opened to the public. 

We got there and signed up spontaneously for a tour on a trolley. It was pretty exciting. #travelnoobthings

They also had a cafe with a bunch of treats and drinks. We grabbed a drink to go.

We then went on a tour of the DuPont 175 room home, which was pretty cool. However, they are super strict when it comes to drinks/gum/cameras/stayingIMMEDIATLYwithinthe group. If you were two steps back in the previous room you got told to keep up because 'we have to stick together'. Two steps isn't that far away. But oh well. It was interesting to see regardless.
 

This was my favorite place. The Enchanted Forest. It had a fairy home.

I really wanted to get a picture of the bees on the flowers, with the way the sun was shining with the pollen falling it was just so cool, but a picture didn't capture the beauty of it. It didn't do it any justice.

When you discover serendipity.  This is truly my favorite picture. (Thank you again, Aunt Tracy!!!!)

There was also a koi pond!!!

Well two, if you have to be technical ;]

I sat down for a bit of a rest.

Still breathtaking.

Still being a kid, I picked up the frog. He was a great frog. He was in the same place I sat him down when we came back a hour and some later.

 Lady-beetle Larvae! Aren't they cool? They turn into a ladybug, if you didn't know [:

 It was starting to get dark, and thunder was brewing so we detoured back to the cafe through the fern garden. This picture doesn't do any slight bit of justice but it was just beautiful. The perfect place to sit and read a book.

We ended up hiding out in the cafe in the middle of a downpour and hided out till it lightened up and got a very not-so-careful bus back to the visitors center. i don't think the driver touched the breaks and had the peddle down to the floor. Oh dear.